The study was designed to evaluate the possible hepatoprotective activity of the pretreatment with aqueous extract of the leaves of Hyptis suaveolens on acetaminophen induced hepatotoxicity in rabbits. Albumin, total ...

A method for the direct plant regeneration of Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent is described. Callus was induced from corm and leaf explants of C. bicolor on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 0.8 mg/L2, ...

Savannas cover up to 65% of Africa's land area and up to 80% of West Africa and occur between the equatorial rainforests and mid-latitude deserts. They have a continuous C4 grass stratum at least 80 cm high with fit, cauline ...

In the Kainji Basin, Mokwa and Yelwa areas of northwestern Nigeria early successional plots are usually dominated in terms of number of stems by the Caesalpinioid shrub Piliostigma thonningii. An ecological study of 17 ...

The effect of tree canopy cover on the yield, crude protein (CP), and fibre content of grass species in the Nigerian Guinea savanna was studied. The following grass species, Andropogon gayanus, Hyparrhenia involucrata, ...

Human-induced change in the composition of the atmosphere seriously threatens the global climate. In an effort to address this threat, 161 nations signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the ...

The search for natural sweeteners has prompted intensive research on plants with sweetening properties. Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii (Stapf) Diels is a dioecious, semelparous annual liana found as a late successional, ...

In January 1983, two 50 m x 50 m rain forest plots in the University of Ife campus in southwestern Nigeria were demarcated for a baseline study of species composition, litterfall and tree girth increments. By accident, a ...